Just a word of warning.  You won't be able to live on your salary alone.
If you are lucky enough to get a job at all, you will be making very
little.  Prepare yourself for less than $30K.  Also the job market is
extremely tight in the Bay area.  I have a BA in History from an Ivy
League, an MA in Museum Studies, lived in the area for 2 years, volunteered
at 2 local museums, and made tons of connections.  Still I never managed to
land a museum job.
I also found out I make more working in the library here at Stanford than
comparable level museum positions, and if it weren't for my wife being an
engineer, I couldn't live here.
On the up side, the area is great, the people are great, and I am glad to
be here and want to stay.  I would also happily give you any names and
contact info to the people I met in my networking frenzy.  What sort of
museum are you interested in?
  (I don't mean to sound bitter.  I would take a lower paying museum job if
my family concerns would allow that.  I intend on continuing to support
museums, but from the outside.)
Vincent Lyon

At 10:00 AM 1/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>I am relocating from Florida to California and would
>like some salary advice from those of you in the
>museum field.
>
>I am a recent B.A. graduate of art history, with
>mainly just internship experience.  My work history
>has, also, given me strong computer and organizational
>skills; I have served one year as a registrar at a
>charter school.
>
>I would like to know if any of you could offer advice
>regarding average salaries for museum entry-level
>positions (i.e. registrar's assistant; exhibition
>assistant, and education assistant) in both/either San
>Francisco and/or L.A.  The costs of living are quite
>higher in CA than FL, so I'd like to know how salaries
>differ and what to expect.  Please feel free to answer
>either on Museum-L or at my e-mail.
>
>Any tips would be appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ginger Hill
>
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